Summary: <a href="https://www.lawliberty.org/2012/04/24/from-sacrament-to-contract-marriage-religion-and-law-in-the-western-tradition/"></a>In this new installment of Liberty Law Talk, I discuss with renowned legal historian John Witte the recent reissuing of his classic work, From Sacrament to Contract: Marriage, Religion, and Law in the Western Tradition. I discuss with Professor Witte the evolution of marriage law since the late Roman Empire and the pivotal aspects of the religious, public, and legal duties that were attendant upon marriage in the Roman law and Canon law traditions. The conversation then turns to the increasing role for the state in regulating marriage that emerged with the Protestant Reformation and its own dismissal of marriage…<a class="moretag" href="https://www.lawliberty.org/2012/04/24/from-sacrament-to-contract-marriage-religion-and-law-in-the-western-tradition/">Read More</a>
